The non-stop absurdity of the FAA in its implementation of NextGen flight paths has resulted in three congressional representatives banding together to form a new advisory group to San Francisco's SFO noise roundtable.

This appears to be somewhat similar to the Noise Oversight Committee we have in Minnesota at MSP, which is not a bad thing. Not a panacea, but it potentially offers citizens a more direct path to the FAA on critical issues.

The backstory here is classic FAA - Rep. Eshoo put in place an agreement with the FAA about a decade ago on how planes can enter into the complicated SFO airspace. When implementing NextGen, they just threw that out the window and changed the flight paths to areas that had not had aircraft noise. Defies all logic.

Downstate in San Diego, the FAA has been trying to pull the same thing, with violations of what is known as the "Red Dot" agreement. That is all about to either get resolved, or turn into yet another lawsuit. Great teams of citizen activists are all over this in both locations. And of course in between near LAX.